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Mrs Dalloway’s Clocks
For Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway the clocks of Big Ben and St Margaret’s, Westminster do more than just tell the time.
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Flames are racing towards your house: what do you save? In 1666, Samuel Pepys prioritised his cheese.
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St John’s Gate, Clerkenwell and the London Palimpsest
Peel back the centuries on a walk down St John’s Lane exploring the industrial, literary and religious histories of this street.